MutualOne Foundation Awards $2,500 To Help Homeless Children

MutualOne Charitable Foundation awarded $2,500 to Horizons for Homeless Children’s Playspace Program, which serves homeless children living in four Framingham family shelters.

At these shelters, trained Playspace volunteers engage in play and developmental activities that support the children’s social/emotional, physical and cognitive development.

According to Dianne Luby, Horizons for Homeless Children president and CEO, Playspaces provide early learning and play programming to ensure that young homeless children living in family shelters have access to the opportunity for the normal, developmental play that every child needs to learn and grow.

“The Foundation grant will help provide homeless children living in shelters in our community the chance to succeed in the school environment,” said Robert P. Lamprey, chairman of the Foundation. “We are pleased to be a part of making that happen.”

The grant to Horizons for Homeless Children was among awards totaling $63,375 in the MutualOne Charitable Foundation’s most recent round of funding.

Since it was established in 1998, the Foundation has donated over $2.8 million to charitable, educational, and civic initiatives that improve and enhance the quality of life in Framingham, Natick, and surrounding communities.

MutualOne Bank, which operates under an 1889 state charter, has full-service offices at 828 Concord Street and One Lincoln Street in Framingham and at 49 Main Street in Natick, a Commercial Loan Center at 160 Cochituate Road in Framingham, and a Residential Loan Center at 49 Main Street in Natick.